In this movie, considering rom-com conventions and the fantasy associated with those conventions a younger actor is required for Reese's part. Reese is OK for the older woman opposite Robert PATTINSON in WATER FOR ELEPHANTS, for instance. This movie not so much.
SARAH JONES now appearing on FOX TV's ALCATRAZ would have been a better choice or someone of her generation.
its not the oldness, i just wasn't interested seeing men fight over her, once thats the problem the entire film doesn't work.
shareShe is hot enough in a real world way, but I agree it didn't fit the movie or the leads. She has a good body and all, but again, it was a little off. Dont get me wrong, a weekend in bed with her would rock. But it just didn't seem to fit right. Shes ok looking, but not "hot"
But Reese got top billing, so I think this was as much about the female audiences point of view too. So if they used an actress that was super hot it may have thrown off the female viewers.
I dont think a situation with two guys going after one girl is easy to make it fit for everyone. She did better then I expected. I dont actually think a hotter actress would have helped. The premise is kind of off out of the gate regardless
You people are so stupid!! Being 36 is NOT old. At all. Heck, there are actors and actresses in 60s that are still attrative. Moreover, this is totally sexist bull. If you had any male actor of 36 and actress of 31, NOBODY would call it an age difference. Even if guy is 48 or so (like Brad Pitt and Tom Cruise) and the girl is like 25 (like Megan Fox or Amber Heard), I still think that nobody would notice an age difference. I can take it both ways, cause love and appeal has no limits, when it comes to grown-up. But, I'm sick watching middle-aged men with all the good chicks, while men in their 20s are stuck with underaged girls that they couldn't date in real life without going to jail. And when the reverse happens, some moron says she's too old. Well, you know what Chris Pine and Reece Witherspoon pairing is like 1000000000000000 times more appropriate age-wise that Danny Trejo and Jessica Alba in Machete, and I liked that pair too.
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Yeah I tend to agree although Reese has trimmed down and looked great she was too old for the part. I actually think it could have worked with her in the role but the guys would have been better in their mid forties - say Brad Pitt or Matthew Mc. Having guys in their early thirties the female character would have been best around 25 years old, say Megan Fox or Brooklyn Decker.
Anyway it was a decent movie - just more age appropriate actors would have made it better.
Reese is not old and she is not wrinkly or saggy or baggy and both Jennifer Aniston AND Cameron Diaz both do Romantic comedies and both are 40+ years old and Reese has a much more youthful look than either of them (not disparaging either actress, they are both gorgeous women)at this point in her late thirties.
shareWhat's funny is that Pine and Hardy have better chemistry together than she has with any of them...
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What are you talking about, she is only 36, so if someone is in there 40 then they are very old?????
People have always something bad to say about a movie, i liked her and i hope to see her in many other movies like she was in this movie.
I had no problem with the casting. The 3 leads all look about the same age. The biggest suspension of disbelief was that Tom Hardy and Reese Witherspoon's characters were so hard up for dates that they had to resort to an online dating service.
shareJessica Alba should've played reese's part.
shareOld otdated thinking. Online dating has nothing to do with looks. Its all about efficiency. Why hope to blindly stumble into someone at the store, bar, bank or whatever, or have some friend set you up on some date when you can screen hundreds of people for compatibility before ever even seeing them in person. It is such a waste of time for so many to be dating someone for months only to find out they are incompatible when a simple screening or online discussions beforehand could have weeded them out. Id take a good dating service anyday over a buddy hook up or old fasioned blind luck or a bar...
shareI understand your point but I'd never go on blind date of an Online service.
Those sites can be very dangerous, sorry if I'm being an extremist but those sites many times are used for sex traffickers to Catch their victims.
The luck they had is one in a million